Definition of Miosis

1.Noun. (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants).

Literary usage of Miosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)"The greatest degree of spastic miosis is produced by the alkaloids which ...
Paralytic miosis is one of the most important symptoms of paralysis of the ..."

3.A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)"They consist in dyspnea; tremors and convulsions; miosis; debility and paralysis
of certain muscle groups, especially the neck; abolition of certain ..."

4.Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)"If the miosis is of cerebral origin, it indicates an early irritative ...
Systematic writers have divided contraction of the pupil into irritation miosis, ..."

5.A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1897)"Either cause alone would produce a medium miosis ; a combination of the two ...
Irritation miosis, according to Leeser,.is not usually increased by the ..."

6.Review of the Department of Defense Research Program on Low-Level Exposures by Best, Committee on Toxicology, NetLibrary, Inc, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (2005)"Although miosis typically has been considered the critical effect and most frequently
... (2003) found that mastication consistently preceded miosis and ..."